Alaska heat pump program installs only 100 of 6,000 planned units as federal grant rollout lags
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Avery Ellfeldt
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Summary
A federal grant program in coastal Alaska aims to install 6,000 heat pumps by 2029 to reduce reliance on fossil fuels for home heating, but has only completed about 100 installations so far. Residents like Mardell Gunn, who currently heats her home with a wood stove and an aging oil boiler, are applying for the program to lower costs and reduce fossil fuel use. The slow rollout highlights challenges in scaling clean energy adoption in remote, cold-climate regions.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe worst thing in the world be to have the boiler go out in the middle of the winter.
I'm doing it because I would really like to use less fossil fuel.
An effort to install thousands of heat pumps in coastal Alaska is off to a slow start.
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